Railway-tie



E. WATERS.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-27. 1920.

1,392,376, mm Oct. 4, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE-4 EDWARD, WATERS, or ,CAPR'EAL, ONTARIO, CANADA:

I narnwAY-rm' To all whomit may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EnwARmWA'rEiis, a subject of the King of Great Britain, a resident of the town of Capreal, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railway ties, and the objects of the invention are to provide a tie which can be readily renewed or removed and replaced with a minimum of time and labor, to facilitate shimming the rails during. winter when heaving of the track bed is liable to take place, o

that the level of the rails will be readily adjusted, to provide a false tie which may be inserted under the rails if too great a depth or thickness of shims are required to bring the rail to the desired level, and generally to adapt the several parts to better perform the functions required of them.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists essentially of the improved construction particularly described and set forth in the following specificationand accompanying drawings forming part of the same. I

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is aperspective view of my improved tie.

. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the-same showing the false tie in position.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the chocks.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through one of the chocks.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the false tie as seen when collapsed.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings; A represents a pair of chocks each of which is formed like a frustum of a rectangular pyramid, that is to say, the end walls and side walls converge toward the top.

Each of the chocks'has a longitudinally extending orifice 10 therethrough, and a plurality of orifices 11 extending vertically through the chock. The ends of the chock A at the orifice 10 are provided with recesses 12.

The chocks A are arranged inspaced relation and a tubular member 13 is located between the chocks and rests in the inner recesses 12 of the said chocks, and a tie rod 14 sp cati nf Iiett rsrateht. YPatented Oct. 4,1921.

l Application filed August 27, 1920. Serial No. 406,481.

and'one of the recesses 12 of a chock A, and

this washer straddles the tie rod 14.

When the nuts 15 are tightened the two chocks will be pulled into and positively held in the desired position relatively to each other. The chocks A are placed on thevrail bed and the ballasting of the rail bed in whatever form it may be, surrounds the chocks on the four sides, and the tubular member 13 may be, if desired, partially embedded in the ballasting.

On each of the chocks a suitable rail retaining member B is mounted.

In the event of one of the chocks A becoming worn, broken or requiring repairing, then it is only necessary to unthread the nut 15 adjacent to said chock, ,when the chock may be pulled outwardly and a new chock placed on the tie rod 14 after which the nut 15 would be rethreaded on the tie rod.

It, will be noticed that by forming the ends and side walls tapering upwardly they act as anchoring means to revent lateral or endwise displacement of the chock, and since the walls are wedged against a ballasting or rail bed they hold the tie firmly in position.

During winter use it frequently happens that the rail bed heaves so throwing it out of alinement, and the usual practice is to shim. the rails to bring them into alinement or level, but it often happens that when the shims become too thick the rail will be imsafe and for the purpose of leveling the rails I 'provide a false tie C which is elevated above and engages with the chocksA.

This false tie C comprises a pair of pivotally connected bars 17 having their adjacent ends beveled as shown at 18 and formed with beveled shoulders 19 against which the ends of the adjacent bars will abut.

The ends of the bars 17 at the outer ends The object of the washer 16 isto provide any slight adjustment of the rail relatively to each other especially at curves, when the washer may be removed ifdesirable to allow the rails being pulled closer together.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many widely: diflerent' embodiments of my invention within the scope of the claim constructed Without departing from the spirit or scope thereof; it is intended that all matterfcontained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense,

WhatI claim as my invention i s 1 5 A tie comprising a pair of chocks each formed like a frustum of a rectangular cone,

means for securing the ehocks in spaced relation, a false tie, being provided. formed Witnesses; V,

MARI E. -KNOX, I ETHEL GARROW.

EDWARD WATERS.. j 

